Ankara: Turkey has most bad countries for journalists as compare to other countries. Around 50 reporters, journalists and Media Persons were arrested during 2012. Many Kurd Journalists were also among them, a Committee in New York for Journalists’ rights issued report.
Iran is on second among those countries which arrested most journalists in 2012. Economic Giant China on third Position. Pakistan is also among those few countries where environment is not supported for journalists. Whereas Israel has dozens of stories related to violation against Journalists but US report didn’t report it.
On other hand, Turkish Officials haven’t commented on this new report. It’s also important to mention here that, Turkish Government rejected previous report from this committee and alleged that these stats are higher than actual figures.
Journalists unions are claiming that most journalists were imprisoned due to anti-Government reporting. In recent T Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) report, 232 journalists are jailed around the world.